The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
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GREAT damage has been wrought in New
foundland by extensive forest fires.
The labor party has absorbed almost all
the democratic strength in Cincinnati.
The British privy council has voted to
proclaim at once all the Irish counties.
THREE ladies were drowned at Arden,
Canada, while bathing in Lake Ontario.
The Irish conservatives in parliament will
not oppose the land bill as now amended
A SETTLEMENT of the Afghan boundary
question is announced from st. Petersburg.
BALTIMORE had a $3.50, 900 fire, j. l.. Young
& Co. IS bark extract works being destroyed.
GENERAL w. NJ. DUNN, ex-congressman of
Indiana, is dead. He had an honorable war
record.
AGITATION has been begun in Bulgaria
against Prince Ferdinand and in favor of
Russia
OFFICIALS of the Pennsylvania road deny
the rumor that they will lease the Baltimore
& Ohio.
BILL has passed one branch of the
Georgia legislature taxing bar-rooms $4,000
per year.
THE Merrimack and Connecticut rivers
are still rising rapidly from the recent enor-
nous rains.
The coke strikers are deserving their or
ganization en- masse and resuming work as
individuals.
THE new Hudson river steamer "New
York - made twenty-four miles an hour on
the trial trip.
A TRAIN on the Baltimore & Ohio road
was ditched in Pittsburg Eight persons
were injured.
THERE have been ten new cases of yellow
fever the past week at Key West, Fla,
but no deaths.
The barge Theodore Perry +" of Rondeau,
Ont, was lost i'll Lake Erie and seven per-
sons persisted.
THERE was a tremendous rain-storm in
Pittsburg last week, causing damage of
about 100000.
THE death of the explorer, Stanley, is re-
ported, but the King of Belgium does not
believe the report.
A SUCCESSFUL trial of hydro-carbon fuel
for locomotives was made Saturday on the
| Providence railroad.
Ex-senator SIMON CAMERON has arrived
| in England, whence he will make an ex-
| tended European tour.
WHEAT, corn and oats took tumble on
change at Chicago, August corn getting
down to seventy cents.
THE floods have done great damage at
| Greenfield, Mass, and railway traffic is
temporarily suspended.
A HURRICANE has prevailed on the coast
of Buenos Ayres and number of vessels
have been driven ashore.
| THERE have been severe snow-storms re-
Gently in the Swiss Alps, and six tourists
were lost on the Jungfrau.
Miss JENNIE COLLINS, well known and
identified with charity work in Boston for
many years, died last week.
REV II. w. GATLIN, colored preacher at
! Starksville, Miss, was killed by officers who
were attempting to arrest him.
The coming Jenny Lind is said to he
Mademoisele Sigrid Arnoldson of Sweden.
She has a remarkable soprano voice.
THE New Hampshire house committee on
labor reported adversely on the measure for
the prevention of prison contract labor
THE ship " Firth " of Dina has been lost
in a cyclone in Java waters. The entire
crew, numbering twenty-five, persisted.
THE Gambrinus Assembly of the knights
of Labor in Milwaukee are seeding from
the order because of its temperance views.
A FIRE in Constableville, Lewis county,
n. Y, destroyed 1000 worth of property,
including the Baptist and Catholic churches
DOUBT no longer exists at Washington
that the President will make an extensive
tour in October through the West and North
| west.
LIGHTNING struck a large powder-mll at
Streator, H., injuring one hundred persons
and damaging property to considerable
extent.
RECENT concessions of the British tories
in relation to the land bill are thought to
pave the way for Lord Harrington (unionisD
as premier.
THE interstate commission has issued an
order to all express companies directing
them to conform to the law governing COM
mon carriers.
JUDGE WALLACE has decided in favor of
the American Bell Company in its suit
against the Globe Telephone Company for
infringement.
THE interstate commission heard on Sat
urday the complaint of colored teacher
who was elected from ladies' car y on an
Alabama road
A TORNADO, with hail-stones as big as
hens eggs, swept through southern Indiana,
leveling forests and destroying grain, fruit
and vegetables.
stroyed by fire at Syenzjany, in the govern
ment of Wilma, Russia. -Four thousand per-
sons are homeless.
RUSSELL CLIFFORD, jeweler at Lowell,
Mass, has been arrested charged with steal
ing large quantities of electricity from the
local telephone exchange.
In the by-electons to parliament in Bas-
ingstoke, BriXton and Hornsey, England,
the conservative candidates We're elected by
greatly reduced majorties.
TRIBE friendly to Egypt attacked Nah
dists under Osman Digma near Kassala, re-
Gently, and heavy fighting ensued, during
which | 200 men were killed.
URIEL CRoCKER of Boston, founder of an
old publishing house there, whose New
York branch became ID. Appleton Il Co.
died last week. aged ninety-one
FIRE broke out in the Standard Oil Com
pany's immense plant at Bayonne, n. j.
and before it could be controlled consumed
about $685. worth of property.
AT the republican county convention il
Toledo, Ohio, to select delegates to the re
publican state convention, ten Blaine mel
and three Sherman men were chosen.
I, The referee in the Cutting will cas-,
New York; reports to the court that Gen
eral William Cutting, the trustee of the es
tate, has appropriated nearly 100000.
FLEIscHMANN's bakery, with extensive
| stables in connection, in New York, wer
. burned Monday, and forty-eight horses per
! ished Twenty-seven others were saved.
Q A vIRULENT type of f1ux is prevalent a
A Jacksonville, Miss. Many children ar
v down with it and a number have died Physi
: clans are overworked and panic prevails.
!, A NEW antidote for opium poison wa
$ tried with good effect in Buffalo-oXygen
g administered with a bellows by tube in
e serted in the trachea. In other words, art
l fetal respiration.
i Two young children of Professor f. Il
u Honey Of Yale College died Sunday unde
!, circumstances which make it probable the
II were poisoned by ice-cream, which was O
" home manufactures